GOP unwise to call Obama inexperienced What do you all think of this?

Question

Now that it’s obvious Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate for president, GOP nominee apparent John McCain and the Republican attack machine predictably have started in on the Illinois senator as a callow youth with scant foreign policy experience and a resultant naive view of the world.

Hillary Rodham Clinton herself took that same tack (remember the 3 a.m. phone call ad?), and it clearly didn’t work. So if I were a Republican, I’d be a mite careful about such a line of attack. Clearly, the GOP’s aim is to contrast McCain’s extensive military service and 26 years in Congress and the Senate with Obama’s fewer than four years as a member of the world’s most exclusive club.

But the danger is that the criticisms might just provoke an unwelcome retrospective on the inexplicably scrawny foreign policy credentials and international exposure of the past two cycles’ GOP nominee, the man whom the Gallup Poll says 60 percent of Republicans still think is doing a bang-up job: George W. Bush.

Answer 1

inexperienced?=Bullsh*t. You don't need a rocket scientist who has 20 years of work experience to make a few decisions. I don't see why someone who seems to have the right thoughts to get this far will turn out to be some sort of a disaster. If anyone says Obama is the antiChrist, then all politicians are since they're all corrupt bastards and liars.

Answer 2

Experience as a soldier doesn't necessarily mean you are better at making decisions for the soldiers or for the country.



Look at McCain's veteran scorecard opposed to Obama, he gets lower score. Why? Because McCain is pro-war and anti-soldier benefits. He has one of the worst scorecards in the senate actually because he consistently votes against veteran benefits -- won't support the new GI bill or for raising their pay.



But let's look at experience and knowledge. How many times did McCain confuse Sunni and Shiah publically before he was correctly publically and then had to apologize? 7times over two weeks ... that wasn't a mistatement, that was basic misunderstanding.



And then what about McCain attacking Obama for his naive point of view on diplomacy? Not only has Bush advisors told Bush to engage in talks with Iran, but almost everyone has. Even McCain's advisors have advised this previously. Oops.



And what about McCain's statement this past week about the surge being such a success that violence is now down and we are back to pre-surge numbers? And guess what? We AREN'T back to pre-surge numbers. He had to be corrected again on basic facts about the war.



I think I'll take the less experience guy that still has hold of faculties that has been consistently right about Iraq instead of the guy that doesn't know what's going on and was a soldier half a century ago.

Answer 3

Some people have to use their wits to get anywhere in life. Bush and McCain aren't two of these people.



Bush got the position handed to him by dada.



McCain is like the astronaut understudy who has never been off the ground, or a 3rd string AAA baseball league shortstop who parlays a minor local celebrity into a political career (see Jim Bunning), using his time in the Hanoi Hilton to win one local election after another for years now. This in no way equals foreign policy experience.



("Psst, John: THINK FAST: What's a Suni, what's a Shiite?")



I hope the American people know where their best interest lies. But they've been fooled so often lately.

Answer 4

fsfa is right - why are you talking about BUSH? Didn't you ask about Obama's lack of experience?



McCain, Clinton, and Mickey Mouse are wise to point to his lack of experience, because it's an important problem. If the Democratic party was any smarter, they would give Hillary the nomination so they would have someone competent to run against McCain, not to mention lead the free world.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Name just one bill, any bill that Obama has co sponsored? I predicted that the left wing Liberals would try to attach McCain with Bush and sure enough, you did it. McCain and Bush are different as night and day. I will be voting McCain as is my Hillary voting wife

Answer 7

Actually, I think his home town newspaper who admittedly knows him better than I do captured him best when the Tribune called him a gutless politician.

Answer 8

Because i's true - he has no experience. And I won't be voting for Bush, either so you can save yourself some time by leaving him out of it.

Answer 9

Why are we paying for Public TV,

Answer 10

You are tilting at windmills with this diatribe......the man has no experience, once again!